JaiRamesh2 Posted July 11, 2014 Posted July 11, 2014 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-28216541 Chancellor George Osborne meets India's PM Narendra Modi 8 July 2014 Last updated at 22:05 BST Chancellor George Osborne and Foreign Secretary William Hague have met the new Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi in the hope of strengthening and deepening commercial relations between India and Britain. The chancellor and foreign secretary are looking to open up investment opportunities for UK firms in India's defence and infrastructure sector, and attract Indian investment into Britain.
JaiRamesh2 Posted July 13, 2014 Posted July 13, 2014 How PM Modi kept his promise to the northeast in Budget 2014 http://www.firstpost.com/india/pm-modi-kept-promise-northeast-budget-2014-1616725.html?utm_source=FP_HP_CATEGORYRANK
Texan Posted July 16, 2014 Posted July 16, 2014 Ashok Khemka, who took on Robert Vadra, may get role in Modi's PMO Whistle-blowing IAS officer Ashok Khemka, transferred 44 times in 23 years of his career for refusing to kowtow to powers-that-be, was on Tuesday approved by the civil services board for Central government deputation upon his request after his annual confidential reports marked his overall performance 'outstanding'. Khemka's name would now be included in the Centre's offer list and sent to different ministries. Sources said he's likely to be picked up by the Prime Minister's Office. Khemka, 49, whose name was off the list because of a chargesheet by the Haryana government to chastise him for his cancelling Congress president Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra's controversial land deal with DLF, was cleared by the civil services board headed by Union Cabinet secretary, stating there was no corruption angle in the chargesheet. Haryana government sources said a number of attempts were made in the past two years to tarnish Khemka's image by ordering inquiries against him. He was sent to Haryana's archives department after he cancelled the Vadra-DLF land deal. Khemka had applied for Central deputation on March 15 this year but failed to get clearance from the vigilance department. The 1991 batch IAS officer then approached the department of personnel and training (DoPT) and accused the Hooda government of not assessing his performance appraisal report for the period when he cancelled the mutation of land deal between Vadra and DLF in 2012. He also gave details of his outstanding grading between 2007-08 and 2011-12 saying his performance was not assessed between April 1, 2012, and October 15, 2012. Sources said the civil services board discussed these factors did not find any serious charge against him. Reacting to his name being cleared, BJP leader Subramanian Swamy posted a comment on his Facebook page saying, "Honesty does have value! You might remember IAS officer Ashok Khemka who took action against corruption of Mr Robert Vadra. You might also remember the Haryana govt replaced him with a succession of IAS officers like Yudhvir Singh... And you might also remember that AAP gave Lok Sabha ticket to same Yudhvir Singh as a reward for saving Vadra." Saying Khemka is honest, Swamy added, "Modi Sarkar has recommended his appointment at the Centre." The Vadra-DLF land deal Robert Vadra's company Skylight Hospitality had purchased around three acres in Shikohpur village of Gurgaon for Rs 7.5 crore in 2008. After some time, Haryana's town planning department issued a letter of intent to set up a commercial colony on 2.71 acres of this land. In 2008, Skylight and DLF had inked an agreement to sell the three acres to DLF for Rs 58 crore. The sale deed of the land was registered in favour of DLF in 2012. On October 15, 2012, as then director general of land consolidation department, Khemka cancelled the mutation of land deal on grounds that the assistant consolidation officer, who had sanctioned the change of title in the revenue record in favour of DLF, wasn't competent to do so. But, the Hooda government chargesheeted Khemka alleging he had wrongly cancelled the mutation. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Ashok-Khemka-who-took-on-Robert-Vadra-may-get-role-in-Modis-PMO/articleshow/38444015.cms
Sachin=GOD Posted July 17, 2014 Posted July 17, 2014 GabbbarSingh@GabbbarSingh "Dekhiye, Isme hi bhalai hai ki Dosti bani rahe"
Raghav_12 Posted July 17, 2014 Posted July 17, 2014 Muslims will be loved, but they mustn't oppose Hindus: Singhal http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/bjp-win-blow-to-muslim-politics-vhp-chief-patron-ashok-singhal/article1-1241242.aspx Narendra Modi — an “ideal swayamsevak†— would deliver on the Hindutva agenda unlike the first NDA government, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad supremo and one of the longest serving senior Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) leaders told HT in an exclusive interview. The right-wing Hindu leader, who had a front-row seat at Modi’s swearing-in, said “tables had turnedâ€. The polls were a “setback to Muslim politics†used by “foreign and divisive forces to destroy our identity,†he said. It was time for them to learn their lessons. “Muslims will be treated as common citizens -- nothing more, nothing less. And, they must learn to respect Hindu sentiments. If they keep opposing Hindus, how long can they survive?†said the 88-year-old who has been a lifelong pracharak of the RSS, the ideological parent of the BJP. Asked to elaborate, Singhal said Muslims should give up claims over Ayodhya, Kashi and Mathura and also accept a uniform civil code. The VHP is understood to have asked interlocutors to convey this message to Muslim organisations. “We’ll then give them love, and not claim any other mosque sites even though there are thousands built on the ruins of temples. But if they don’t accept it, they should be prepared for further Hindu consolidation. It has happened at the Centre, it will happen in other states,†said Singhal, who set up the VHP and spearheaded the stir for the Ram Temple. The temple issue, civil code and abrogation of Article 370, which grants special status to Jammu and Kashmir, had strained the VHP’s ties with the Vajpayee government. The Hindu outfit felt that the NDA did not come good on “core issuesâ€. But no such apprehensions this time, Singhal said in clearest indication, so far, of the RSS’ assessment of what the Modi government can deliver. “The government will not and does not need to backtrack because it has the numbers in the House, and whatever we want to do, we want to do it through constitutional means,†the VHP leader said. The Ram Temple and Godhra had made the BJP win possible. “These were the undercurrents and then issues of development and governance appealed to the young.†For the RSS veteran, elections and religion are never too far. “Religion is the rock on which this country rests.†In Modi, he sees an “ideal swayamsevak. “During the campaign, he conducted himself like a swayamsevak. He also showed to the world the discipline and hard work that a Sangh pracharak puts in.†The PM started his political journey as an RSS pracharak. Singhal admitted that there was “an unprecedented mobilisation†by the Sangh Parivar, an umbrella term for various Hindu outfits, during the elections. Did Sangh expect rewards? “The governors being appointed -- be it Ram Naik or Kesari Nath Tripathi -- are all from the Sangh but this is not necessary. We worked because it was our duty,†he said. “The important thing is the agenda must be fulfilled.†Despite the Sangh’s tough anti-Pakistan stance, he sees Modi’s invitation to PM Nawaz Sharif as diplomacy. “You also have to resort to deceit at times, and there are segments in Pakistan who want good ties. The problem lies with the jihadi elements, and till they are there, relations can’t be good.†There were some more suggestions on foreign policy. India should take the lead in building a “cultural commonwealth†of South and Southeast Asia, with Hindu and Buddhist population. “China cannot lead such a grouping, it has no cultural backbone and, like the USSR, China will collapse one day.â€
Khalpat Posted July 17, 2014 Posted July 17, 2014 Muslims will be loved' date= but they mustn't oppose Hindus: Singhal http://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/bjp-win-blow-to-muslim-politics-vhp-chief-patron-ashok-singhal/article1-1241242.aspx Wow! how things change. This man was one of the worst critic of Modi even called him Ghazanavi once now as soon as Modi is PM he has changed the tune. What else can we expect from a VHP leader?
suraj Posted July 18, 2014 Posted July 18, 2014 Interview from an 88yr old guy yes that should guide some policy ....
Sachin=GOD Posted July 26, 2014 Posted July 26, 2014 Gujarat govt unduly favoured Reliance, Adani: CAG report GANDHINAGAR: The Comptroller and Auditor General (CAG) — the country's apex auditing agency — has slammed the Gujarat government in its five different reports, for severe mismanagement of the state's financial resources. The reports highlight irregularities amounting to more than Rs 25,000 crore, which includes what the CAG says was around Rs 1,500 crore in undue benefits to certain companies, including Reliance Petroleum, Essar Power and the Adani Group. http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Gujarat-govt-unduly-favoured-Reliance-Adani-CAG-report/articleshow/39005042.cms
Crookbond Posted July 26, 2014 Posted July 26, 2014 Gujarat govt unduly favoured Reliance' date= Adani: CAG report http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Gujarat-govt-unduly-favoured-Reliance-Adani-CAG-report/articleshow/39005042.cms Sickular CAG
Number Posted July 26, 2014 Posted July 26, 2014 Sikh-Muslim riots in Saharanpur. Sikhs blaming Imran Masood of Congress for inciting Muslims for rioting. How can a secular party do this?
JaiRamesh2 Posted July 27, 2014 Posted July 27, 2014 First big critical move by Modi government since winning majority: India won't back WTO trade protocol unless food security concerns addressed http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2014-07-26/news/52057733_1_trade-facilitation-bali-package-bali-ministerial India stuck to its guns at the World Trade Organization in defiance of developed nations with a strongly worded statement at the general council meeting in Geneva on Friday that it will not agree to any accord on trade facilitation unless food security issue is also taken up, signalling its intent to take a hard stand on July 31, the deadline by which a decision has to be made. Instead, India has suggested a four-point action plan that seeks to deliver by December 31 a complete package on agreements reached at the Bali ministerial that includes trade facilitation, a package for least developed countries and public stocking for food security. ... Gonna be alot of pissed off rich nations
Number Posted August 3, 2014 Posted August 3, 2014 Great speech by him in Nepal. Getting a lot of praise from all the parties there. Love the way he turns things "communal" in a few minutes everywhere. :)
someone Posted August 3, 2014 Posted August 3, 2014 What a speech. If there was an election tomorrow in Nepal, Modi would sweep it.
asterix Posted August 3, 2014 Posted August 3, 2014 What a speech. If there was an election tomorrow in Nepal' date=' Modi would sweep it.[/quote'] Sweeping elections are not a problem.... It's after the elections he becomes MaunMohan Modi... It's like using the electorate for his own gains and then doesn't has any obligation to communicate with them... Few tweets here and there, and address to nation on couple of occasions like Independence Day or Republic Day, will quickly ensure that he's not take seriously in coming elections... Never thought that he'll even beat MMS... People will start joking (if not already) of using their phones in Modi mode...
JaiRamesh2 Posted August 4, 2014 Posted August 4, 2014 Preparing for Kosi flooding: BJP, Bihar have come a long way from 2008 http://www.firstpost.com/india/preparing-for-kosi-flooding-bjp-bihar-have-come-a-long-way-from-2008-1647743.html Addressing the Constituent Assembly of Nepal, Narendra Modi emphasised his concern over the potential Kosi flood threat, adding that his “entire government” was working overtime to ensure that consequent losses are minimised. Around the same time Law and Telecom minister Ravi Shankar Prasad held a press conference in New Delhi to make a detailed briefing about the steps the union government was taking to provide assistance to the Bihar government and the people who could be potentially affected, as well what measures were being taken to coordinate with Nepali officials. The extent of preparedness announced by the centre is impressive and shows commendable alertness on the part of the Modi government. This incident is the first major disaster management challenge for it, and is also testing inter-ministerial and centre-state coordination mechanisms. While the overflowing Kosi waters are yet to hit parts of Bihar, the government response, level of preparedness and communication with the people is in marked contrast to 2008, when on 18 August an embankment in Nepal was breached and the river changed course, causing devastation in Bihar. The officials had known in 2008 that the embankment was eroded and severely weakened but poor communication between Nepal and Indian authorities meant that the disaster was not averted. A fax by junior Bihar irrigation department officials to the Bihar water resource ministry went unheeded, even unnoticed. The centre and the state seem to have both learned their lessons since then....
Precambrian Posted August 4, 2014 Posted August 4, 2014 Sweeping elections are not a problem.... It's after the elections he becomes MaunMohan Modi... It's like using the electorate for his own gains and then doesn't has any obligation to communicate with them... Few tweets here and there, and address to nation on couple of occasions like Independence Day or Republic Day, will quickly ensure that he's not take seriously in coming elections... Never thought that he'll even beat MMS... People will start joking (if not already) of using their phones in Modi mode... What should he do? Give a speech everyday ?
someone Posted August 4, 2014 Posted August 4, 2014 Sweeping elections are not a problem.... It's after the elections he becomes MaunMohan Modi... It's like using the electorate for his own gains and then doesn't has any obligation to communicate with them... Few tweets here and there, and address to nation on couple of occasions like Independence Day or Republic Day, will quickly ensure that he's not take seriously in coming elections... Never thought that he'll even beat MMS... People will start joking (if not already) of using their phones in Modi mode... I suggest you to check the article posted on another thread about Modi talking to the right audience. That completely explains and throws away your argument. The media wants gossip each day which they aren't getting and that's a good thing. The 99:1 media strategy: Modi is speaking to the right audience
someone Posted August 4, 2014 Posted August 4, 2014 INFORMATION WITHOUT SPIN - Modi has ended his honeymoon with the media Swapan Dasgupta Last Wednesday, to commemorate his two years in Rashtrapati Bhavan, President Pranab Mukherjee invited the media for tea. At the old ballroom — now inappropriately named the Ashoka room, considering the elaborate Persian hunting scenes on the ceiling — he delivered a charming speech outlining the importance of Sir Edwin Lutyens’ Viceregal Palace in the twilight years of the British. As an aside he also spoke about his continuing interaction — albeit in a non-political way — with the media. His various trips inside the country and overseas invariably contain a media contingent and Rashtrapati Bhavan has two officers responsible for servicing the media. The president naturally spoke about his media outreach because the function was exclusively for the media. However, at the tea that followed in the old banquet room, a reporter for a English weekly magazine decided to give the president’s remarks a spin. Going from huddle to huddle, she said that the “story to do” was a comparison between the president’s open style — his press secretary had earlier called it the ‘democratization’ of Rashtrapati Bhavan — and the No Entry approach of the prime minister, Narendra Modi. The media’s gripe with the new occupant of Race Course Road has already filled up many columns of the press, particularly the English language publications. Accustomed to being courted, wooed and briefed about each and every aspect of government by an active media department of the prime minister’s office that invariably included former journalists with existing links in the media, the fourth estate is miffed with Modi. Not only has the media policy been replaced by an information policy where the print and electronic media are treated on par with the social media, there is no one in the PMO to take calls and entertain queries. Finally, in a move that left the media apoplectic with rage, Modi decided that he was not obliged to take a massive media contingent with him on his overseas tours. Interested media organizations could jolly well make their own arrangements but the government of India wasn’t going to either subsidize or facilitate a contingent that, if the past is any indication, contained as many non-journalists as those who actually reported. This withdrawal of an age-old entitlement has led to the end of the all-too-brief honeymoon he enjoyed with the media between the final stages of the election campaign (roughly from mid-April when the Congress collapse became self-evident to all but the wilfully blind) and the visit of the leaders of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation for his inauguration at the end of May. Conventional wisdom deems that in the made-in-media society of the 21st century, no political leader can hope to survive in a democratic society by keeping the media firmly outside the gates. ‘Spin’ has become a favourite buzzword in political circles in the West and effective ‘spin doctors’ are much in demand in all democratic societies. The “government that has stopped spinning,” wrote The Times (London) with characteristic certitude in August 2003, “is the government that may well have stopped functioning.” This over-weaning importance attached to media presentation had a lot to do with the perception that new age politicians such as Tony Blair had taken the poetry out of politics and reduced it to weekly opinion polls, focus groups and targeting. In a searing, old world critique of New Labour, Lord Rees-Mogg, a former editor of The Times, wrote in disgust: “The government arrives at policy more or less by accident but arrives at propaganda —‘the line to take’— by careful planning and high-level discussions. The government is a presidency organised for propaganda not a Cabinet organised for policy.” It is fortuitous for the political class that public disgust with unending spin was overtaken by the public revulsion for the media over their lack of ethics in the manufacture of news. In Britain, the circumstances that led to the closure of the News of the World — one of the most popular Sunday tabloids — led to the media as a whole being discredited. In India, the taped conversations of the public relations person, Niira Radia, with prominent journalists had a similar effect. Apart from breaking the myth about ‘objective’ journalism, it showed up many top dog journalists for what they actually were: brokers in the corridors of power. Whether a disavowal of Western-style democratic politics or disgust with media that had hounded him relentlessly since 2002 determined Modi’s decision to switch from spin to bare-bone information will remain a matter of conjecture. However, two things are worthy of note. First, unlike the Congress that was unduly sensitive to media criticism, particularly the English language publications and channels, Modi has survived the rough and tumble of politics by being disdainful of the media. Legends have grown around how he looked right through a prominent television anchor during the 2007 Gujarat election campaign and how he dismissed another star with contempt during one of his yatras in 2013. Indeed, confronted by a wall of media opposition as he transited from regional to national politics, Modi strove to bypass the mainstream media with an over-reliance on the social media where he could control the message. Contrary to some conspiracy theories of corporate media backing the ‘Modi for PM’ project, the Modi message was disseminated in 2014 from the social media downwards. It is only after the Modi campaign was on a roll that print and TV media jumped on to the bandwagon. Secondly, Modi has concluded —rightly in my opinion — that the wider public doesn’t give a damn about either media conveniences or its trade union demands. Interestingly, he is not the only political leader of consequence to do so. Jyoti Basu was downright rude to the gaggle that used to greet him in the Writers’ Buildings corridor; J. Jayalalithaa never ceased being celluloid royalty; Naveen Patnaik was very civilized and extremely aloof; and there was the thick curtain that separated Sonia Gandhi from prying eyes, media or otherwise. The media imagine that Modi is under an obligation to play the media game by the rules they have set. Modi feels that he can alter the rules to his advantage —even if leads to short-term hiccups. There is an unstated stand-off between Modi and the media that remains unresolved. For the moment, the media are undertaking a proxy war — trying to drag the government in the Ved Prakash Vaidik-Hafeez Sayeed meeting and having a ball massacring the unshaped views of the hapless Dina Nath Batra. But these are all sniper attacks. The media are yet to get their teeth into something more substantive such as a juicy corruption scandal or a serious policy mishap that will enable a frontal attack on the prime minister himself. On his part, Modi is using the honeymoon to establish an alternative outreach strategy that will not compromise on media exposure for the government’s policies and programmes but could end up limiting the media’s ability to be agents of influence. In the West such an approach would undoubtedly have been politically hazardous. However, it is instructive to remember that Stanley Baldwin had no hesitation taking on the Beaverbrook press in the 1930s, knowing fully well that paper sales were no index of public opinion. Modi is only too aware of the media’s limitations in India. He also knows that there is a long way to go before the Indian media can acquire a self-image of being truly professional and without a collateral agenda. His priority is to get his message across. As long as there is a credible message, the medium will fall in place. Another good piece of article.
asterix Posted August 4, 2014 Posted August 4, 2014 What should he do? Give a speech everyday ? One extreme to another extreme... Nobody's expecting him to give speech everyday... But at least he can issue policy related issues, just to continue where he left during his election campaign... Not only he's become a super duper MMS, he's even instructed his cabinet to not communicate with media (it seems). Within short span of time he will be brought down to ground reality if he allows opposition to project him worse that MMS in communicating... Remember UPA suffered a lot because of not being able to communicate with public, apart from other reasons.. A large chunk of Modi's voters are young generation and one thing they do hate is another leader who gives competition to MMS... I'm not asking him to speak directly to media... He can, time to time, even release his views from PMO communication... As of now the Modi Silence mode is beating MMS Silence mode in mobile phone, hand down...
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